PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE: Last night was one of those nights. Now it's
morning -- the sun's shining, the head's pounding, and "I can't
remember what was said or what you threw at me." That's the situation
for the bonehead in "My Own Worst Enemy," Lit's debut single, which is
now Number One on the Modern Rock chart. "It's not one particular
incident," says Jeremy Popoff, Lit's twenty-seven-year-old
guitarist-songwriter. "It's a product of several. It's definitely real
for a lot of people."

ALL LIT UP: The band -- which also includes bassist Kevin Baldes,
drummer Allen Shellenberger, and Jeremy's younger brother, singer and
co-writer A. Jay Popoff -- slogged around the So-Cal scene for ten
years and released one indie album, so Lit are a bit awed by their
sudden radio ubiquity. "We're driving through the middle of nowhere in
Kansas at three in the morning, and we hear our song come on right
after Def Leppard," says Jeremy. "It's just a little surreal."

WHERE DID YOU GET THAT CADILLAC? Lit's sound -- bright, jagged, heavy
on the hooks -- owes a lot to the Popoffs' own musical youth, "from
Boston to Elvis Costello to Nirvana," as Jeremy describes it. But they
style their lives on an earlier vibe: The band mates, from Orange
County, California, swill martinis and swing to Sinatra, and both
brothers own classic Caddies. "Oh, it runs killer," Jeremy tells us.
"The cars are so huge, and there's so much chrome on 'em, with big
fins. Definitely not stealth, by any means."